Spring 2018...
Training Jam Series
with Guest Teacher, Raïna von Waldenburg
LIMITED CAPACITY!
Due to limited space, we are able to take 15 participants per Training Jam. Please arrive early to secure a spot!
Feb 18 5pm-8pm
Training Jam led by New(to)Town Collective
Feb 25 5pm- 8pm
Training Jam led by Raïna von Waldenburg
Mar 4 5pm-8pm
Training Jam led by Raïna von Waldenburg
Mar 11 5pm-8pm
Training Jam led by New(to)Town Collective***
LOCATION: Playwrights Theatre Centre (PTC)
739 Gore Ave #202
Accessible information:
PTC is located on the second floor in a building with no elevator and a long flight of stairs. PTC is on the second floor and does not have elevators. Gender neutral washrooms are available. Our washrooms are not wheelchair accessible. This space has a scent-reduced policy. Please click HERE for more information on PTC's scent-reduced policy.
***ASL Interpretation may be available on this day upon request. Please send in a request 2 weeks before you plan to attend a Training Jam.
Due to limited space, we are able to take 15 participants per Training Jam. Please arrive early to secure a spot!
Feb 18 5pm-8pm
Training Jam led by New(to)Town Collective
Feb 25 5pm- 8pm
Training Jam led by Raïna von Waldenburg
Mar 4 5pm-8pm
Training Jam led by Raïna von Waldenburg
Mar 11 5pm-8pm
Training Jam led by New(to)Town Collective***
LOCATION: Playwrights Theatre Centre (PTC)
739 Gore Ave #202
Accessible information:
PTC is located on the second floor in a building with no elevator and a long flight of stairs. PTC is on the second floor and does not have elevators. Gender neutral washrooms are available. Our washrooms are not wheelchair accessible. This space has a scent-reduced policy. Please click HERE for more information on PTC's scent-reduced policy.
***ASL Interpretation may be available on this day upon request. Please send in a request 2 weeks before you plan to attend a Training Jam.
About Training Jams
Drop-in Training Jams are workshops lead by one of the New(to)Town members. Every week we will explore various topics such as Grotowski (a physical theatre practice), dance, clowning, devising, etc. The description of the topics will be posted on our website. Training Jams are opportunities to cross pollinate training, practices, and ideas between artists of various disciplines as well as non-artists. We love to take requests on what you want to explore please contact us if you have any suggestions. Regardless of your experience level there is always room for you to expand your range and to hone your practice. Training Jams are a safe space for exploration, curiosity, and to expand your artistic community. And best of all it's BY DONATION! There is no need for prior registration. Commitment is not necessary but we are quite irresistible.
About Raïna von Waldenburg
Teacher, actor, director and writer, Raïna von Waldenburg recently moved to Vancouver after having been full-time faculty at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts where she taught a physical approach to acting based on the work of Jerzy Grotowski at the Experimental Theatre Wing for 17 years. She is currently faculty at the University of Fraser Valley’s Theatre Department, and taught at Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts and The Art Institute of Vancouver’s Acting program. Raïna also teaches physical acting workshops in Vancouver. The recipient of the 2011 Distracted Globe grant, Raïna produced her one-woman show Oysters Orgasms Obituaries at La MaMa E.T.C. in NYC for which she received the 2012 New York Innovative Theatre Award nomination for “Outstanding Solo Performance” and the 2014 Persephone Award for "Innovative Teaching and Performance". She has performed at many venues in NYC for the past two decades with innovative companies such as Witness Relocation and Actors Without Borders. Raïna performed her solo show My Friend Andrea at The Cultch in 2015 and 2016.
Raïna’s artistic mission is to humanize and bring humor to taboo/difficult subject matter. Raïna is also a published poet and mother.
Suggested donation for Training Jam is $10 per drop-in. No pre-registration required.
For online donations please click Support Us
Drop-in Training Jams are workshops lead by one of the New(to)Town members. Every week we will explore various topics such as Grotowski (a physical theatre practice), dance, clowning, devising, etc. The description of the topics will be posted on our website. Training Jams are opportunities to cross pollinate training, practices, and ideas between artists of various disciplines as well as non-artists. We love to take requests on what you want to explore please contact us if you have any suggestions. Regardless of your experience level there is always room for you to expand your range and to hone your practice. Training Jams are a safe space for exploration, curiosity, and to expand your artistic community. And best of all it's BY DONATION! There is no need for prior registration. Commitment is not necessary but we are quite irresistible.
About Raïna von Waldenburg
Teacher, actor, director and writer, Raïna von Waldenburg recently moved to Vancouver after having been full-time faculty at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts where she taught a physical approach to acting based on the work of Jerzy Grotowski at the Experimental Theatre Wing for 17 years. She is currently faculty at the University of Fraser Valley’s Theatre Department, and taught at Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts and The Art Institute of Vancouver’s Acting program. Raïna also teaches physical acting workshops in Vancouver. The recipient of the 2011 Distracted Globe grant, Raïna produced her one-woman show Oysters Orgasms Obituaries at La MaMa E.T.C. in NYC for which she received the 2012 New York Innovative Theatre Award nomination for “Outstanding Solo Performance” and the 2014 Persephone Award for "Innovative Teaching and Performance". She has performed at many venues in NYC for the past two decades with innovative companies such as Witness Relocation and Actors Without Borders. Raïna performed her solo show My Friend Andrea at The Cultch in 2015 and 2016.
Raïna’s artistic mission is to humanize and bring humor to taboo/difficult subject matter. Raïna is also a published poet and mother.
Suggested donation for Training Jam is $10 per drop-in. No pre-registration required.
For online donations please click Support Us
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Progressive Performance Workshop
Coming Soon...
Been sitting on the couch wanting to create something but end up Netflix and chillin? Need accountability for finishing what you started? Looking for peer to peer support from a group of artists also itching to create? Well, then look no further! New(to)Town Collective brings to you the Progressive Workshops!
Every Sunday for four weeks starting April 9 we will meet to explore material you are interested in developing or extending. Your chosen material can be anything from scene study and monologues, to script development, choreography, a clown turn, or any kind of devised work. Each week you will come in and show an excerpt of your work to the ensemble. The ensemble will act as your mock audience, directors, dramaturges - whatever you need us to be to assist the development of your work. You will have a week in between each workshop to flesh out your piece before coming back for another in-studio showing. If your artistic journey is like sailing through the ocean, then we are here to guide you to your North Star. Whatever your intention may be the Collective can help you paddle but you’re the Captain. This is a progressive workshop where ensemble creation is part of the process.
Attendance for the drop-in Training Jams is not necessary but highly recommended. Weekly participation for the Progressive Workshop is a must.
Each participant will have a generous amount of time reserved for their in-studio showing and, because of this, we are only able to accept 8 participants into the workshop. Registration is first come first serve.
Additionally, please let us know if you have needs or materials to better facilitate your process. For example, if you are coming into the workshop as a playwright, do you need actors to read for you? Or if you are an actor interested in working on a scene, do you require a scene partner? Or if you do not have a scene but you know you would like to work on your range, would you like us to find scene for you that would help you stretch as a performer?
The workshop fee is $100 (payment method will be provided upon enrollment)
*If you require assistance on payment please do not hesitate to contact us
*ASL Interpretation is available upon request. Please let us know upon registration.
Please come with:
- Clothes that you are comfortable to move around in. Jeans are a bad idea. Stretchy or sweatpants are a good idea.
- WATER
- A snack to eat during a break
- A notebook if you need to write anything down
-Commitment to your process
- An open mind
- Respect for the space, yourself and others
Please contact newtotowncollective@gmail.com for more information.
